New stuff from the Gov: Inslee announced today that National Guard members will help staff hospitals and testing sites as providers struggle to keep up with Omicron's surge. Inslee also ordered a four-week pause on non-urgent procedures to help open hospitals' schedules. Like in the early days of the pandemic, he's asking for retired healthcare workers to temporarily return and serve. Here's what King County's COVID dashboard is looking like: Well, this got weird: "Pig.
In May, On the Boards (OtB) threw what I thought was the best gala of 2020. Called
Virtually Spectacular: Sensory Perception, the gala replaced the contemporary performance venue s annual fundraiser,
Spectacle Spectacular, which is usually a fancy dinner for 150 of Seattle s best arts patrons. Forced into the virtual world because of the pandemic, On the Boards brought their reliable flair to the digital event: Betty Wetter was a clutch host, Justin Vivian Bond prolapsed a grapefruit, and, most importantly, the world-class venue raised over $80,000. The successful fundraiser gave me the hope I needed to believe that Seattle s arts scenes could make it through 2020, a year with too many tragedies to count.